Are You For Sale?A discussion about philanthropy, art making, and ethics between Edgar Villanueva, author of Decolonizing Wealth, and Miguel Gutierrez, choreographer, music maker, and writer. Moderated by choreographer and community organizer Hope Mohr.
American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation for this event provided by Monica Gallego and Jen Drew. To access a transcript of the video below click here.
TICKETS: $0 - $100, sliding scale. All contributions will go directly towards artist pay for HMD's Bridge Project programs
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ABOUT MIGUEL GUTIERREZ | Miguel Gutierrez is a choreographer, composer, performer, singer, writer, educator, and arts advocate who has lived in New York for over 20 years. His work has been presented in more than 60 cities around the world, in venues such as the Wexner Center for the Arts, Walker Art Center, Centre National de la Danse, Centre Pompidou, ImPulsTanz, Fringe Arts, TBA/PICA, MCA Chicago, American Realness, Chocolate Factory, and the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Gutierrez has received project support from Dance/NYC Dance Advance fund, MAP Fund, New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, National Performance Network Creation Fund and Creative Capital. He has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, United States Artists, New York Foundation for the Arts and Foundation for Contemporary Art. In addition he has a Franky Award from the PRELUDE festival and he has received four New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards. He is a 2016 Doris Duke Artist.
Recent work includes Unsustainable Solutions: Duet with my Dead Dad, a duet between Miguel and his father on video, This Bridge Called My Ass, a group work that bends tropes of Latinidad to question the limits of representation, and Cela nous concerne tous (This concerns all of us), a commission for Ballet de Lorraine inspired by the French social unrest of May 1968. He has created original music for several of his own works and his current music project is called SADONNA, where he transforms upbeat Madonna songs into sad anthems. His book of performance texts, When You Rise Up (2009), is available from 53rd State Press, and his essay “Does Abstraction Belong to White People” appeared in BOMB magazine in 2018. Gutierrez teaches regularly at a variety of festivals and intensive workshops worldwide, including Movement Research, ImPulsTanz, and Camping and the Centre National de la Danse. Gutierrez has been a guest professor at several universities including Bennington College, Hollins University, Yale University, Brown University, Rhode Island School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California at Berkeley, University of New Mexico, University of North Texas, New York University Tisch School of the Arts’s Experimental Theater Wing, and many more. He is the program director for LANDING, a community-building, non-academic educational initiative at Gibney Dance. He invented DEEP AEROBICS (Death Electric Emo Protest Aerobics) in 2007, disseminated it for 10 years, and then killed it in 2017. He is a Feldenkrais Method® practitioner, and a 2020-2021 Caroline Hearst Choreographer in Residence at Princeton University. www.miguelgutierrez.org
ABOUT EDGAR VILLANUEVA | Edgar Villanueva is a globally-recognized author and expert on philanthropy. His newest book is Decolonizing Wealth, which offers compelling alternatives to the dynamics of colonization in the philanthropic and social finance sectors. He currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Native Americans in Philanthropy and is a Board Member of the Andrus Family Fund and NDN Collective. Edgar currently serves as Senior Vice President of Programs and Advocacy at the Schott Foundation for Public Education. There he oversees grant investment and capacity-building supports for education-focused justice campaigns across the United States.
Edgar holds two degrees from the Gillings Global School of Public Health at The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. He is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and resides in Brooklyn, NY. Follow him on Twitter and IG at @VillanuevaEdgar.
ABOUT HOPE MOHR |Hope Mohr (moderator) has woven art and activism for decades as a choreographer, curator, community organizer, and writer. She is the founder of Hope Mohr Dance and co-directs HMD's signature presenting platform, The Bridge Project.
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Photo L to R: Miguel Gutierrez by Marley Trigg Stewart, Edgar Villanueva courtesy of the author
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